Types of Sentences
Types of Sentences
Exclamation Mark
Full stop/Period Question Mark
Interrogative Sentence
Declarative Sentence (Telling Sentence)
1.What are you doing?
1.Gandhi ji helped to get freedom for India.
2.I had a wonderful dream yesterday.
Imperative Sentence(Command)
● Declarative
● Interrogative,
● Imperative
● Exclamatory
Types of Sentence
There are four types of sentence…
declarative/ Imperative/
statement command
Interrogative/ exclamatory/
question exclamation
Declarative Sentences
A Declarative sentences tell something or make a statement. They use a
period at the end of each sentence.This sentence that simply tells the
reader something.
subject + verb...
Declarative sentences can be positive or negative. Look at these
examples:
positive negative
This type of sentence asks a question. Use a question mark ? at the end
of a sentence to show that you are asking a question.
positive negative
base verb...
Note that there is usually no subject—because the subject is understood,
it is YOU.
positive negative
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to reveal the answer
It’s going to fall.
Click statement
to reveal the answer
Have you seen my new shoes?
question
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What a fast car that is!
exclamation
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Mini Quiz
1. The most frequent sentence type is
● declarative
● interrogative
● imperative
Mini Quiz
2. "Who came to the party?" Which sentence type is used?
● interrogative
● imperative
● exclamative
● imperative
Mini Quiz
3. Which sentence type does not usually use a subject?
● interrogative
● imperative
● exclamative
● declarative
Mini Quiz
4. We use the exclamative form to
● express strong opinions
● ask questions
● make statements